Team Grandparents Blog

Thank you to Pastor Parrish for this prayer to use the first Sunday of February:

LEADER: Hear these words from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.

I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Eph. 3:16-19

LEADER: Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the riches, and the glory.  We praise you for who you are, and we thank you for the blessings that we have in you.  Our life is in you; when we have you, we have all that we need.  We pray this morning, God, that we will know the depth of your love, that we will be grateful, and that we will let others know that you are the great and true God.

GRANDMOTHERS:  As we pray for our grandchildren this morning, we pray for roots that go down deep in the soil of your love and your truth.  As they experience life with you, help them to know that you can be trusted and that you have the words of life.

GRANDFATHERS: We pray that our grandchildren will be well rooted in values that will help them to make decisions that honor you every day of their lives.

GRANDMOTHERS: We pray that the roots of our grandchildren’s faith will grow deeper through their relationships with friends and adults in their homes, in their communities, and in your Church.

GRANDFATHERS: We also pray that our grandchildren will have strength and empowerment that come through your Spirit.  We pray that they will know your strength so that even when they are weak, they will be strong in you.

GRANDMOTHERS: We pray that our grandchildren will have strength and empowerment against the stresses, challenges, and adversities that they face at home, at school, and with friends.

GRANDFATHERS: We pray that our grandchildren will have strength and empowerment through your Spirit to resist the devil because we know that when we resist the devil he will flee from us.

GRANDMOTHERS:  We pray that our grandchildren will have strength and empowerment to be good witnesses for you as they live for your holiness.

SILENT PRAYER FOR OUR OWN GRANDCHILDREN

LEADER: We thank you, Strong Tower, for your love and your empowerment.  We pray that each one of us and all of the people who we care about will know that we are complete in you with the fullness of life and power that come from you.

ALL: In your great name we pray.  Amen.

NEXT MEETING: MARCH 7^TH JOIN WITH GRANDPARENTS PRAYING FOR ALL OUR GRANDCHILDREN

Grandparents – a great web site is:
www.ChildrenSermons.com
Nice to print out for our grandchildren, particularly if a grandchild does not attend church regularly. Nice to have in your home or to give to a grandchild to read before they go to bed at night or with you when they visit.

Pray for all our grandchildren to feel the guidance of the Holy Spirit and to learn more about Christ and their faith every day. Pray for our grandchildren to be protected by their faith and by courageous grandparents who speak up against those things that threaten the safety of our grandchildren.
Google www.willcountyao.com – James Glasgow to read how our electronic age, while bringing great opportunities in the lives of our grandchildren, needs to be monitored for their safety.

“According to federal law enforcement authorities there is an unprecedented growth in child pornography in the U.S. because of the Internet. Today the virtual playground of cyberspace affords these sexual predators the opportunity to engage children putting our grandchildren at high risk.”

WHAT TO DO: Keep the family computer in a central location where the child or teen is not isolated and learn Internet technology in order to better monitor our children’s online activity – as well as TM (text messages).